Parasites w/ Kelly Weinersmith

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Cara chats with Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything." They talk about her work as a biologist and ecologist, focusing on parasitic agents that manipulate host behavior. Then the conversation shifts to her new book (co-written with her husband, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic creator Zach Weinersmith). You should read it. It's really good.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday October 30th, so happy
0:18.4	Halloween Eve. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and I want to start by thanking those of you who made
0:24.3	TalkNurdy possible this week.
0:26.5	Remember TalkNurdy is and will always be 100% free to download and that's mostly because of
0:31.8	support from listeners like yourself.
0:35.2	So first I want to thank those of you who supported the show by becoming patrons, patrons as it were,
0:41.5	by visiting
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0:54.3	them all but I do offer every week to give a shout out to my highest level
0:58.7	supporters and they include Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover, Rob Schreck, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Jeffrey Perez, Charles
1:06.5	Payet, Jonathan Wright, Christian Jeffrey, Stuart Oge, the Honorable Husband, Jafe, Gabriel Felipe, Herr Emil Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.
1:18.2	I also want to thank those of you who showed your support on the PayPal portal, including this week, it looks like Todd Ericsson,
1:28.7	unless I already thank you last week, and Richard Mone.
1:33.4	All right, I also want to tell you about this week's show
1:37.2	because it's such a good one and I'm so glad we got to do this interview.
1:41.9	So I had a wonderful chat with Dr. Kelly Wiener-Smith and if you
1:47.2	don't know who she is she is an infectious disease, ecology,
1:53.3	researcher, she actually focuses on parasites
1:58.0	and specifically on how parasites affect their host behavior.
2:04.0	Super weird, super awesome.
2:06.2	But also, right now you've probably noticed
2:08.3	that she may be trending a bit in the news
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